Gardening Quotes

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Roberto Burle Marx

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan

A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson

All gardening is landscape painting.
William Kent

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
George Cadbury

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank

Garden as though you will live forever.
William Kent

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Oscar de la Renta

Gardening is not a rational act.
Margaret Atwood

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon

He plants trees to benefit another generation.
Caecilius Statius

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
May Sarton

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Alexander Smith

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.
Michael Fish

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
Martha Smith